What's that sound called?

[jackfalbey]

I'm trying to find a sound effect that usually is associated with a suspenseful realization. It is a three-note, mid-low-high jingle, sort of "DUH-duh-DAAAA" and is usually played in a scene where the plot thickens or the villain is revealed. Used a lot in cheesy older B-movies. Forgive my poor description; I'm not musically inclined.

[Steve Grisetti]

Technically, it's called a sting, if that helps.

[Checkmate]

Jack, at sounddogs.com the keywords accent suspense brings up quite a few examples. Not sure if this particular one is there.

[jackfalbey]

Thanks guys... I'm sure there's a specific name for this "sting" since it is a classic and has been used in many Old-Time Radio & TV shows and movies... If I could hum it to you you'd probably say "Oh, that's called a (insert name here)".

I checked sounddogs.com and found "High Orchestral Suspense Accent 4" which is almost the same except the one I'm thinking of is more punchy, with each note as a separate beat rather than run together.

I've been looking for this for an audio play of mine for quite a while, searching RF music and SFX websites, and finally thought if anyone can help me it would be someone here.

[Maxine370]

Try
http://www.findsounds.com
which can find sounds on the web. I'm not sure what you would call it.

I can hear exactly what you are looking for but I think it is phoenically bom bom bah. I know I've heard it recently in one of my kids shows where one of the characters sings it.

Maybe Backyardigans.

[Maxine370]

Ps. I hope you get my humor in spelling the phoentics of the sound effect.

[Maxine370]

SO you got me on a search (no success so far) but I did find this fun site with lots of other sfx and clips...
http://www.frogstar.com/wav/classic.asp

check out the left column too for other fun sounds

[Maxine370]

This might be it or at least somewhat close....
http://www.ilovewavs.com/Effects/Music/Music.htm

Bigscene?

[Chuck Engels]

Good find Beth, I think that will be really close to what Jack is looking for

[Maxine370]

ANother suspensful stinger (and a lot of other fun stuff) found on this page

http://www.wavsource.com/tv/batman.htm

[jackfalbey]

This might be it or at least somewhat close....
http://www.ilovewavs.com/Effects/Music/Music.htm

Bigscene?

BigScene.wav was close, but the middle note should be lower than the first...

Thanks everyone for the help; I'll keep looking.